Mysterious Fake Cellphone Towers Are Intercepting Calls All Over The US

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49. A few questions on Cryptophones though...

Hard to find even googling...

1. Which carrier networks can they talk to? Can they hook up to Sprint networks? That would be cool for those with Credo subscriptions which sits on Sprint networks. Credo might want to try and offer them if they are found to be a good alternative to prevent spying as a more activist company.

2. If they only connect to WIFI networks and not other cell networks, doesn't that limit their scope compared to other cell phones?

3. If everyone else you are talking to is using regular cell phones, and their communications to you with your cryptophone is decrypted at some point, doesn't that take away from the purpose of it? In other words, to have truly encrypted conversations do you have to talk to someone else who also has a cryptophone?

Cryptophones might be good for a team of journalists, or something like that where they don't want to be spied upon and can have all of their team getting the same phone, etc. but at $1000 a crack for some of these phones that I've seen priced online, it seems to be difficult as an option to look at now for most of the rest of us, even if we wanted to get their features. I'm in the market to replace my cracked cell now, but I'm thinking perhaps getting one of these now is still premature.